OLDHAM’S education chiefs have been rocked by a 50 per cent increase in the number of pupils suspended for racist abuse and soaring numbers of primary school pupils excluded from school.
Figures obtained from Oldham Council by the Advertiser show that 209 pupils under the age of 11 were excluded at least once from school in [...]

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The UK’s equality watchdog was accused of hypocrisy tonight for paying its female staff less than the men.
The Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) receives £9 million a year from the Government to push for employees to be treated the same regardless of their gender.
However, the average salary for women working at the EOC is £25,128 - [...]

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A barrister provoked outrage yesterday by claiming that the victim of an alleged gang rape was so fat she would have been ‘glad of the attention’.
Sheilagh Davies, defending one of three boys accused of raping two girls, said the 16-year-old girl had ’slimmed down a lot’ since the alleged attack.
She told Inner London [...]

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New technology means coal can be both a clean and secure source of energy, according to a UK think-tank report.
High in carbon emissions - a key factor causing climate change - coal has typically been seen as a dirty fuel.
But the environmental damage can be reduced, says the report, and unlike some renewable [...]

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Details of a new plan to crack down on employers who hire illegal workers are due to be revealed.
Immigration minister Liam Byrne will publish a consultation paper which is expected to set out details of fines for firms which knowingly employ illegal immigrants.
Last November, Home Secretary John Reid announced the new fines system would be [...]

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A MAN was knocked to the ground and repeatedly kicked as he walked near Arena Park, in Rowleys Green, Coventry.
The incident happened on a pathway towards Peggy’s Park wasteland, near Bedlam Lane, late on Thursday night.
The victim, aged 28, was approached by one man who punched him in the face and grabbed a mobile phone [...]

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Hair loss in humans might not be irreversible, suggest scientists who have helped create new hair cells on the skin of mice.
It was thought hair follicles, once damaged, could never be replaced.
But a University of Pennsylvania team, writing in the journal Nature, say hair growth can actually be encouraged using a single gene. [...]

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A bungling robber who revealed his unusual name to a teenage victim, before mugging him at knifepoint, has been jailed for six years.
The sentencing judge also recommended that Modest Kibassa be deported back to Rwanda.
Kibassa, of Sandhurst Road, New Parks, was found guilty of the street robbery by a jury at a recent Leicester Crown [...]

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A man has been jailed for stabbing a stranger who asked him for a light for his cigarette.
Ari Mohammed (25) admitted wounding when he appeared at Leicester Crown Court on Monday.
The victim was waiting at a bus stop in Humberstone Gate, in the city centre, with a friend at about 4pm on August 3, 2005, [...]

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FAMILIES were allowed back in their homes in East London last night (Tues) 24 hours after being evacuated after a 500lb unexploded German wartime bomb was unearthed on a building site close by.
But they will have to be evacuated again on Wednesday when an Army Bomb disposal unit returns to the site at Bethnal Green.
They [...]

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Hindu leaders in Britain warned that if the government slaughtered a tubercular bull regarded as sacred, it could spark an international incident.
The bull, named Shambo, is kept at a Hindu temple in Wales and has tested positive for bovine tuberculosis. Because of an outbreak of the disease in Britain government regulations say that such animals [...]

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Giles MacDonogh is a bon viveur and a historian of wine and gastronomy, but in this book, pursuing his other consuming interest - German history - he serves a dish to turn the strongest of stomachs. It makes particularly uncomfortable reading for those who compare the disastrous occupation of Iraq unfavourably to the post-war settlement [...]

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More two thirds of people do not comply with basic hygiene principles - and men are the worst culprits, research shows.
The Hygiene Council found many people fail to wash their hands after using the toilet, before preparing food or after coughing and sneezing.
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Teachers are accusing each other of “blatant cheating” in a forthcoming music GCSE exam.
Schools are sent music CDs which are used to test pupils’ listening skills.
These discs can be checked several days in advance to make sure they work - but teachers are claiming some schools may use this to gain an unfair [...]

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Falling gas and electricity bills dented inflation in a boost to Gordon Brown as he prepares to take over as Prime Minister.
However, official figures also show middle class and wealthy families being hit with huge rises in certain costs.
Higher university tuition fees, as well as rising bills for private schools, have sent the cost [...]

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An invasion of Romanian gipsy orphans has left a British town facing financial crisis.
Since Romania joined the EU on January 1, nearly 90 children from the poverty-stricken country have arrived on the steps of the town hall in Slough pleading for help.
The children, from the Roma community, do not arrive with adults, though some [...]

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HUNDREDS of failed asylum seekers have been allowed to stay in Britain because they were so rowdy that airlines refused to take them back to their own countries.
Ministers have admitted they have had to abort attempts to deport more than a thousand asylum seekers in the last two years because they became so aggressive [...]

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PATIENTS in Coventry and their relatives, carers and friends are invited to celebrate the Asian festival of Vaisakhi at University Hospital, Walsgrave, this weekend.
The event will be attended by members of different temples from across Coventry who will take part in prayers, speeches and singing.
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To get ahead, get an accent. The lilt of Scottish and southern Irish voices are much more attractive than the Queen’s finest English.
In a boost to Gordon Brown and the Scottish and Irish diaspora, new research to find out what accents people like - and dislike - most has found that the English are [...]

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